This week the Labour Party gloated about their ‘amazing’ leader doing wonderful things overseas on our behalf. As you may know, our amazing PM has wrapped up a landmark White House meeting with President Biden, capping her hugely successful first trip to the US since COVID. I’m emailing just
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. Warning Long read. 2110 words.
As gang crime escalates and the gang war in Auckland sees almost a shooting a day, we can wonder no more as to why this is happening. It is Labour’s soft on crime law and order policies which have seen the number of hardened gang members in prison drop
Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern became leader of the Labour Party and the NZ Prime Minister in 2017. The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Harvard commencement speech, in full. Warning Long read. 3011 words. **Illustrations added by BFD Editor Juana Atkins. E oku manukura, nga pou haemata o te
Labour has confirmed the worst fears of local communities by tabling a Bill to ram through its Three Waters Agenda, National’s Local Government spokesman Simon Watts says. “Local government is in open revolt, and the public overwhelmingly opposes these reforms. Labour is unleashing hell on local government, putting their
The Hood The ‘Hood’s directors Sereca Friend and Nicola Culver recently held an eye-opening webinar for an exclusive group on May 26th 2022. The directors interviewed members of the legal team, barristers David Jones QC and Tom Molloy, along with legal case manager Katie Ashby-Koppens. Special guest
Nicole McKee ACT Justice spokesperson While gangs continue to run amuck endangering everyday Kiwis all across New Zealand, the Government is focused on repealing deterrents instead of cracking down on gangs. Just last night an innocent construction worker’s home was shot up by Killer Beez in Auckland, while two
Megan Woods’ claim that KiwiBuild is ‘alive and well’ is truly extraordinary, National’s Housing spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “KiwiBuild has delivered just over 1300 homes in nearly four years of operation – just 1.3 per cent of its 100,000 target. “In what universe is that ‘alive and well’
Jack thecommoner.substack.com Information Opinion Warning Long read. 1995 words. Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, an unwritten rule exists in the realm of New Zealand’s mainstream media: Whatever you do, don’t criticise Jacinda Ardern. Although she may give you ample opportunity to do so, any
May 31st, 2022. Interesting facts were released in the UK today as we prepare for the stupendous Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. There are 16,000 street parties planned for Sunday 5 June. Hundreds of thousands of informal street lunches and picnics are scheduled (no, I don’t know the difference
The preoccupied media largely ignored National’s conference in Hamilton at the weekend. Not to worry, Grant Robertson to the rescue, putting the spotlight firmly back on Luxon on the eve of Ardern’s White House visit, with his revealing attack ad on National. Robertson spent an inordinate amount of
TV1 News has led with the story about the resignation of Breakfast host Kamahl Santamaria for at least the last 4 days. I cannot imagine, when China is running rampant in the Pacific and the war in Ukraine is taking a worrying turn, why this story is the first item
Samuel Dennis I am writing to express extreme disappointment at the fact that most freedom-supporting parties have failed to work together in the Tauranga by-election. This is a trial run for the 2023 national election, an election which MUST be won by some sort of freedom-supporting coalition,
There is nothing more creepy than a handsy older man pawing a much younger woman. Yet our media focussed on the fact that Jacinda Ardern managed to have a meeting at the White House rather than any substance coming out of that meeting, or the rather creepy behaviour of Joe
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